2025-05-19, 01:02 PM
So im using Swiftfin on tvOS. I have recently packed away from AVR (house move) and switched to wireless audio through a pair of stereo homepod minis.
Originally the audio delay was terrible, after doing some checks it seems an issue with the VLCKit swiftfin is using and the fix is to switch to the native player. Voila audio is now great HOWEVER native player doesnt allow baked in subtitles like the VLCKit player.
Reading online i found a github page that says webvtt - Limitations of Native player vs. Swiftfin (VLCKit) · jellyfin/Swiftfin · Discussion #953 · GitHub
I converted an SRT to VTT using some online converted, named the vtt same as the mkv and Jellyfin can see the file however the native player doenst show any subtitles.
Just wondering if anyone has a workaround for this? Im not keen on switching to Infuse as i dont want to pay monthly for this (i know being cheap
) but Swiftfin works 95% of the time just this functionality straight up doesnt work 
Originally the audio delay was terrible, after doing some checks it seems an issue with the VLCKit swiftfin is using and the fix is to switch to the native player. Voila audio is now great HOWEVER native player doesnt allow baked in subtitles like the VLCKit player.
Reading online i found a github page that says webvtt - Limitations of Native player vs. Swiftfin (VLCKit) · jellyfin/Swiftfin · Discussion #953 · GitHub
I converted an SRT to VTT using some online converted, named the vtt same as the mkv and Jellyfin can see the file however the native player doenst show any subtitles.
Just wondering if anyone has a workaround for this? Im not keen on switching to Infuse as i dont want to pay monthly for this (i know being cheap
) but Swiftfin works 95% of the time just this functionality straight up doesnt work